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The Athole House Studio
Self-Isolation Artist Residency
30th March 2020 - 7th November 2021

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Over my career I have taken part in many artist residencies in various parts of the world; I have even organised and run a residency program myself. 2020 has brought new challenges to us all, I however intend to treat these challenges as opportunities. With this in mind today, the first day of my self-isolation having arrived back from my studio in the Untied States last night, I I launch my new blog which will become an integral part of this website as I redesign is over the coming weeks.

Artist Residencies give artists the space and perhaps more importantly the time to make new work; I intend to treat my time in self-isolation in the same way that I would if I were on an artist residency in another studio in another part of the world. Athole House Studio maybe one of my home studios but for me it is a work space, and lets face it, we all now have the time.

THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 4th FEBRUARY 2021: DAY 312

2/4/2021

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New painting: "To Cast the Glamor."
Oil paint on plywood block, 150 x 150 mm.

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19, 20, 21: Finding a reason to paint, in search of the sublime. 4th February 2021.
Part 24: 'Interpretation, abstraction, illusion. 
An Unsettling Appeal: Insearch of the Sublime.

Over the last day or so I’ve returned to considering what the phrases, ‘an unsettling appeal’ and ‘the search for the sublime’, mean to me and perhaps how I can contextualise and refine them with greater finesse. When I have previously discussed ‘the sublime’ I have called it a ‘terrifying beauty’, but that perhaps has more to do with an archaic, poetic use of the word than the ideal which I am considering. I certainly want to convey a sense of awe in reference to my current work but terrifying beauty? Perhaps not. I am however drawn to the other meanings of the word sublime and how perhaps they are relevant to my work and also how they may be considered in the context of the works of other artists: Friedrich, Turner and perhaps Turrell.

There are two basic, although related, definitions of the word sublime. The first is an adjective and this is the ones which is usually considered in relationship to art and particularly painting: “tending to inspire awe usually because of elevated qualities, lofty, grand, exalted, transcendent”. Transcendent, I like that word.

The second is however a transitive verb and is more often used in scientific terms: “to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapour state and to condense back to the solid form. To render finer, to convert something inferior into something of higher worth”.
When I consider the sentence: ‘to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and to condense back to the solid form’, I can’t help but to think of the paintings of Casper David Friedrich and how his mountains become clouds and his clouds become mountains with no hint of transition in between.

To be continued...
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  • CODEX
    • plane >
      • Apophenia: An Uncanny Presence.
      • Control(s)
      • Personal Topographies
      • The Self-Isolation Residency
      • Americana
      • Mauve Skies
      • Scotland
      • Selected Drawing & Paintings,
      • The Teaching Years
      • Spatial Paintings 2006-2008
      • Paintings 2006
    • mass >
      • The Blind Men and the Elephant.
      • Spatial Conceptions 2014 - 2022
      • Painted Objects
      • Autograph
      • The Newtonian Nightmare
    • volume >
      • Enso nest
      • Someone else's storey
      • Shower, The Process Residency 2013,
      • Concrete Haiku
      • Atypical
      • The Murder of Crows.
      • Composition in White (Painting), The Breathe Residency:
      • Composition in White (Sculpture), The Breathe Residency:
      • Floorplan
      • Paper Scissors Rock
      • Pilgrimage
      • The Fifth Column
      • Tension
      • Arch
    • blogs >
      • The Self-Isolation Residency: Blog 2020-2021
      • Apophenia: An Uncanny Presence. 2022
    • artist statement
    • cv & education
    • contact